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When Prayer Becomes Novelty
Prayers can become terrible things. Like sentences are useless unless they are composed of words that have some meaning and logical order, prayers can become useless when they iare not aimed at truly seeking God’s ear, His heart, or His will. There are many ways this can happen, all of which I have participated in.
Continue reading...My Blog Sabbatical
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Want to know what’s been going on in my prayer life? Well, I won’t tell you everything, but I will tell you this: stop blogging for a while. I suppose it’s been about a year that I’ve been thinking about this. I don’t really know what triggered it, other than God—plain and simply put. In [...]
Continue reading...Ask, Seek, Knock—An observation found in Luke 11:1-13
Monday, February 8, 2010
This passage is one that has been misused many times and in many ways. The most common being of the Word of Faith movement, which would say, “The reason you don’t have an abundance in your checking account is because you don’t ask for it!” Err. Wrong. Luke 11 begins with what is commonly known [...]
Continue reading...How to Make Your Morning Devotions Stick Like Glue
Friday, February 5, 2010
Devotions come in many sizes and flavors. You have the soft mushy kind, the dry scholarly kind, and the in-between kind. But what I bring to you is one that when you come out of your devotional time you will have grasped the meaning of the the text, and where you fit into the God [...]
Continue reading...Focus: It’s Un-Habitual
Monday, January 11, 2010
Focus is crucial to accomplishing any goal. In the process of sorting the beans (pun intended) of life, we have to figure out which ones we spend more time focusing on. Some slip through the cracks, while others we cannot neglect. One of these we know we cannot neglect our focus on our relationship with [...]
Continue reading...Keeping God In The Spice Cabinet
Monday, November 23, 2009
Lately I have been thinking about prayer. I recently was able to do some outreach to a few homes. We gave away Turkey meals from Passage Church. This was cool in many ways. For one, it’s been a while since I’ve done an outreach like this and I was really excited about going. Next, I [...]
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- Jonathan: Good point....
- matt greene: I'd say that a huge roadblock today in evaluating our beliefs is an extravagant lack of beliefs. Oh, don't get me wrong, I think everyone has beliefs,...
- Jonathan: I agree. Understanding is more important. Let us not forget that we can show off in our understanding as well....
- markku: What is the point, though, with spending time and energy on learning this by heart? You save like one second each time, because you don't neet to look...
- Jonathan: Oh, believe me: she was better about 2 minutes after the incident. She just got scared more than anything. Thanks for watching. I am thinking about d...
- Denita: Howdy! Excellent use of improvised whiteboard, and a good nutshell of basic worldviews. A bit rough around the edges, LOL...hope your daughter's doing...
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